Word: awaiting
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...most Harvard teams lucky enough—and good enough—to make their respective NCAA tournaments, the announcement of the brackets is an event unto itself. Players and coaches gather ceremoniously round the television and, on pins and needles, await their collective fate together—unless, of course you’re on the No. 21 Harvard men’s tennis team, in which case you just go to practice...
Expos is a tradition worth keeping, but it also badly in need of reform. The College is right to envision an oral communication component and to focus on making the program more relevant to the rest of the curriculum. We eagerly await more details about how it intends to complete these tasks...
...happenings of the University—instead of billions of dollars that students will likely never see—don’t have such a choice. And this year, over 200 of them heard that mass layoffs, inevitably accompanied by economic insecurity and family instability, await them next month...
...friends from Cornell who’ve arrived for the hockey game blather about an anticipated return to the NCAA tournament or their goalie’s performance while they expectantly await the next drop of the puck. Of course, the swarm of Big Red fans won’t be returning the hospitality offered by Harvard. At Cornell, there’s no room for the few Crimson fans willing to brave the six-hour trek through the wilderness of Upstate New York anyway. In each of the past two seasons, even Lynah’s standing-room only...
...intuition is that many students share this frustrated sense that there is so little that we as individuals can do. We look to Harvard’s administrators for answers. We eagerly await the complete report, due next month, of the Student Mental Health Task Force, which has been charged with improving the University’s bureaucratic—and at times impersonal—support system. The report likely will lead to significant improvements in the clinical services and residential resources available for undergraduates. But students, who have long complained about Harvard’s sub-par mental...